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Cyberfolk.org

civic cybernetics
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Blog-form thoughts on social implications of cybernetics

For: Anyone thinking about governance, technology, and social systems through a cybernetics lens.

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A blog about our role in cybernetic systems — and how we can shape the systems that are shaping us. Exploring the intersection of cybernetics and social systems: feedback loops, emergence, communication, and adaptation. Beer coined "cyberfolk" to describe a populace linked into governance via real-time feedback — an attempt to keep workers, managers, and policymakers in the same loop without centralizing control.